VICTORY IS NOT POSSIBLE: A REJOINDER TO THE STRATEGIC MYTHMAKERS
作者:
Louis René Beres,
期刊:
Review of Policy Research
(WILEY Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 3
页码: 359-370
ISSN:1541-132X
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1983.tb00723.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The current strategic planning for nuclear war is based on the assumptions that it is an effective way to deter the Soviet Union and that we can actually survive such a war. These are erroneous, for the Soviets are not likely to be any more deterred by our plans for nuclear war than they are by our current strategy. The illusion that “victory” is possible in a nuclear war overlooks the medical and other evidence about the extent of death, injury and disease that a nuclear war would bring. War should be conducted with a view of post‐war benefit in mind, but a nuclear war would yield no benefits, regardless of the futile and even delirious efforts to make evacuation plans for major cities in the event of nuclea
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